When was the last time you told a really good truth? I am finding that deception is becoming commonplace amongst our society to where it can be viewed as justifiable if it is a means to an end.
When have we become so jaded, that amateur and professional deception is acceptable and sometimes approved. Deception is the act of deceiving someone; fraudulent behavior. Two year olds to politicians are masters of deception with little to no remorse.
It appears most weave their own web of deceit to accomplish their task.
For example, with no training or prompting our 2-year-old told me a story so she may be carried to the car. She prompted her leg was in pain by holding it and hopping on one foot. She proceeded to pick her leg up and hop as if to insist she was to be believed.
As I turned and responded “no problem, Hon I understand, you can stay with your Daddy," I could hear her feet, which hurt so badly, running behind me and she making the declaration “it’s okay now."
Later that day she wanted a Princess Tiana Band-Aid so she proceeded to bang her head on my thigh and then indicated that she needed a Band-Aid for her forehead which was in pain.
Mission accomplished: band-aid received.
I couldn’t stop laughing. As small as the deception, it was still uncalled for.
How many deceptive acts did you perform today which you have fully justified because it was a means to an end?
How many deceptive acts do you believe you were a part of to accomplish someone else’s end.
As I used my 2-year-old to illustrate a point, it is no laughing matter. Through deceptive acts and behavior reputations are ruined; political careers are trounced; marriages are destroyed; friendships are broken all while people lose their sense of self and make their 30 year-plus career hell for others.
The thing that bothers me most regarding deceptive practices is the individuals who condone the behavior through silent consent. When is it ever okay to allow others to do wrong? How much money, societal decorum, and/or political correct rhetoric should be upheld when deceptive practices are in play.
I wrote this to address some accusations I have heard over the past couple of months which have cost some serious situations to go south. All construed through deceptive actions.
There was a very wise King of Israel by the name of Solomon who once said “A man who digs a pit for another will sure fall in the same”.
I pray that does not happen.
Yet, we cannot deny the symbolic truth. Deceptive practices, whether physical or verbal, are wrong and downright mean.
When was the last time you told a really good truth? Why not start today? Besides, when you tell the truth there is not much you have to remember except the truth.